Unranked Jodie Williams sneaks in here as a DA. L32: Jodie Williams UNR v (Q) Stacey Grant (RSA) UNR -- Edited by wolf at 20:15, 2008-10-26-- Edited by Drew at 18:40, 2008-10-27
Fitzy & Bains here on the last leg of their Pakistan tour, draw hasn't showed up yet so maybe Fitzy can fill us in (although he hasn't been around for a few days)?
The last open event on the 2008 WTA Tour sees Sarah Borwell in qualifying, though her main interest will be in the doubles, where she needs a very good week to close on the top 100. Singles qualifying: [2] Mara Santangelo (ITA) vs. Alexandra Stevenson (USA) Alexa Glatch (USA) vs. Maria Mokh (RUS) Sar...
I saw this news on the home page of the ATP site yesterday, but cringed at the coyness of the American text. OEM in today's Net Post on the Times site puts it rather better, though I still have a problem with the use of "passed away" instead of "died": The tennis world was in mournin...
Daisy has already made separate references to the appearance here of Hutch & "Hussy" & Jamie Murray in partnership with the Swede, Robert Lindstedt. I thought I'd make sure that their progress, if any, in the competition could be flagged up without being lost among the posts on...
With Anne Keothavong, Sarah Borwell & Anna Fitzpatrick all blogging for tennis head at the moment, I might thought I might as well create a thread where we can discuss their blogs. http://www.tennishead.net/prozone/interviews/ Today, Sarah gives her thoughts on Barnstaple and Anna gives u...
Andy plays the qualifier 'from' Kazakhstan in what should be a straightforward final. I put from in quotation marks as, lets face it, he's Russian! Match starts at 1pm UK time tommorow (remember those clocks go back). -- Edited by wolf at 19:51, 2008-10-25-- Edited by wolf at 20:42, 2008-10-25
The British sextet (Melanie South, Naomi Broady, Elizabeth Thomas, Emily Webley-Smith, Jocelyn Rae and Sophie Proctor) head to Port Pirie for the final leg of the Australian 25Ks. This time Liz, Jos, Emily and Sophie are in different qualifying sections, with most players having byes in QR1. The o...
Jonathan Marray and Richard Bloomfield are aiming high this week and are are here in qualifying. Jonny has drawn (8)Lukas Dloughy (CZE) in Rd 1 with (3)Jiri Vanek possibly in final round. Richard has drawn Ivan Dodig (CRO) for Rd 1 but in his group are (6)Benedikt Dorsch and (4)Benjamin Becker Top s...
Tournament Key : M-FU-FRA-20A-2008 Dates : 20 Oct to 26 Oct 2008 Venue : Rodez, France Surface : Hard No Brits in qualies but James Ward will be seeded again in the MD. -- Edited by Drew at 11:34, 2008-10-18
Boys Christopher Simpson lost to (5) David Pel (NED) 6-3 6-4 (q) Andrew Bettles def (LL) Jaan Kononov (EST) Joseph Cohen lost to (WC) Juuso Ojanen (FIN) 4-6 6-3 6-2 L16: (Q) Andrew Bettles v (4) John Morrissey (IRL) Girls Amy Askew (GBR) d. (1)Gally De Wael (BEL) 63 61 (wc)Heini Salonen (FIN) d. (Q...
Curiously, I can't see a thread for this, a home tournie. Delete if I am wrong... Anna Smith, Amanda Elliot are DAs WC to Jade Curtis, Lucy Warburton, Tash Kahn and Jade Windley Tara and Jen Ren appear to be in qualies, along with Kat Brown, Amy Sargeant, Sam Vickers, Olivia Smith, Nickki Prosser, wit...
"Nando" has never beaten Andy in their three encounters so far: Dubai at the start of this year, St P in last year's final & the second round of last year's AO. Let's hope he doesn't make it fourth time lucky...! Ordinarily, I'd expect Andy to stroll through this, but I guess everyt...
Large qualifying draw (128 with byes) means a Friday start here and a return to professional play for Robert Dee QR1: Robert Dee UNR v Roger Ordeig (ESP) UNR QR1: Pierre Clad UNR v BYE QR1: Alexander Hutchings UNR v BYE QR1: (q6) Alexander Ward v BYE QR1: Oliver Webb v Juan Beaus-Barquin (ESP) UNR QR1:...
Tommorow not before 16:00 UK. H2H is 2-1 in favour of Tipsy, the Serb winning at Queens in 2006 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-2, Andy winning in Metz in 2007 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 before Janko triumphed in Moscow a week later 6-4, 7-5.
"Not before" 7pm on the Centre Court, which should be 3pm here I think. Andy should win, Ernests is good but prone to errors - and we know how Andy can provoke errors!
We have been tracking these stats for Andy for a couple of years... 2006 : HERE 2007 : HERE Here are the stats for the first 3 months... Serving : Aces :01. Roddick - 260 No in 17 17. Murray - 119 in 18 1st Serve % : 01. Starace 73% in 10 75. Murray 56% in 18 1st Serve Points Won 01. Guccione - 83% in 14 16. Murray - 76...
No matter what browser I use the BBC sport web site has not been updated since 18:50 tonight....I went to check the football live txt and it still is at 18:45...anyone else getting this ??? PS when i goto to GMT.com to check the time it is correct....9.47pm when I posted this ?
L32: Maniel Bains WR 1206 v (Q) Issam Jellali (TUN) UNR L32: (6) James Feaver WR 815 v Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1271 James and Maniel play together again in the doubles, and Fitzy has paired with Rohan Gide. Cramer, who lost in QR1 again, is partnerless.
So the 23 yr old frenchman comes through in 3 hrs 22 mins against the world number 1 in 3-6 7-5 7-6(6). Andy must really fancy his chances now for back to back Masters title. H2H is 1-1. Murray lost their first encounter in 3 sets on clay in 2007 Rome Masters 1st round. Andy got his revenge in this years Hambu...
While most British interest in Luxemburg will centre on Laura Robson's WTA Tour debut, courtesy of a wildcard (it is also possible that Anne Keothavong made the main draw at the last minute - she withdrew from Poitiers yesterday), there is also a Brit in the qualifying tournament:
QR1:
(4) Johan...
I know this has been mentioned in Andy's forum, but I thought I should create a thread for it as normal is Andy is playing doubles with another Brit. Andy & Jamie Delgado play the 4th seeds Booty & Frantisek Cermak today after the Safin v Stakhovsky match (the players have just walked out on cour...
